Skip to main content
Key Specialties
Cardiology Diabetology Endocrinology Gastroenterology Geriatrics and Gerontology Gynecology and Obstetrics Hematology Infectious Disease Internal Medicine Nephrology Neurology Oncology Pediatrics Respiratory Medicine Rheumatology Surgery
Congress Coverage
2024 ACC Congress 2023 ESMO Congress 2023 EASD Congress 2023 ERS Congress 2023 ESC Congress
Clinical Collections
Advances in Alzheimer’s

At a glance: The STEP trials

A round-up of the STEP phase 3 clinical trials evaluating semaglutide for weight loss in people with overweight or obesity.
ADVANCED SEARCH
Log in
Top
Pediatric Rheumatology
Published in: Pediatric Rheumatology 1/2013

Open Access 01-11-2013 | Meeting abstract

P01-018 – An earliest diagnosis of FMF

Authors: N Aktay Ayaz, E Aldemir, G Keskindemirci, C Aydogmus, G Aydogan, S Kavuncuoglu

Published in: Pediatric Rheumatology | Special Issue 1/2013

Login to get access

Excerpt

Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is an autosomal recessive disease, mainly affecting Jews, Armenians, Turks, Arabs and other groups living around Mediterranean basin. Major symptoms of disease are recurrent periodic fever accompanied by serositis. The disease is usually diagnosed at ages less than 20 years. Onset of the disease at older age can rarely occur. Symptoms related to FMF are noted when children become more verbal, usually after 2 years of age. Mutation analysis supports diagnostic evaluation. …
Literature
1.
Padeh Shai, Livneh Avi, Pras Elon, Shinar Yael, Lidar Merav, Feld Olga, Berkun Yackov: Familial Mediterranean Fever in the First Two Years of Life: A Unique Phenotype of Disease in Evolution. The Journal of Pediatrics. 2010, 156 (6): 985-9.CrossRefPubMed
2.
Tunca M, Akar S, Onen F, Ozdogan H, Kasapcopur , Yalcınkaya F: Familial Mediterranean Fever (FMF) in Turkey: results of a nationwide multicenter study. Medicine. 2005, 84 (1): 1-11.CrossRefPubMed
3.
Yalcinkaya F, Ozcakar ZB, Tanyildiz M, Elhan AH: Familial Mediterranean Fever in Small Children in Turkey. Clin Exp Rheumatol. 2011, 29 (4 Suppl 67): S87-90.PubMed
Metadata
Title
P01-018 – An earliest diagnosis of FMF
Authors
N Aktay Ayaz
E Aldemir
G Keskindemirci
C Aydogmus
G Aydogan
S Kavuncuoglu
Publication date
01-11-2013
Publisher
BioMed Central
Published in
Pediatric Rheumatology / Issue Special Issue 1/2013
Electronic ISSN: 1546-0096
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/1546-0096-11-S1-A22

Other articles of this Special Issue 1/2013

Pediatric Rheumatology 1/2013 Go to the issue

Meeting abstract

PW01-032 – FMF-like state: genetic factors unrelated to MEFV

Meeting abstract

P01-039 – Autonomic functions in children with FMF

Meeting abstract

PW01-024 – Phenotypic analysis of a MEFV negative FMF cohort

Meeting abstract

PW02-033 - Cytokine profile in CSF in CAPS patients

Meeting abstract

PW01-040 – Definition of polymorphism C3435T MDR1 gene in JIA

Meeting abstract

P01-043 – Comparative characteristic of FMF and FMF with HSP